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Helen Morrissey

Helen Morrissey

Editor, Professional Pensions

Helen is editor of Professional Pensions and has twelve years' experience of writing about pensions and retirement from both a retail and institutional standpoint.

She initially joined Professional Pensions in December 2003 as a features writer and was made editor in October 2014.

In addition to her work on Professional Pensions Helen also edited Retirement Planner, a magazine aimed at independent financial advisers for eight years.

While she has written on a range of retirement related topics over the years she specialises in at and post-retirement issues. She has appeared on the BBC's Your Money programme on several occasions and appears regularly on Share Radio.

Helen holds the Pensions Management Institute's Retirement Provision Certificate (RPC).

In her spare time Helen is a keen runner with a number of half and full marathons under her belt. She is currently training for her first - and she believes her last - ultramarathon.

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Articles by Helen Morrissey

Defined Benefit

We need a broader debate on discount rates

Hilary Salt says we need to take another look at how discount rates are used.

clock 22 January 2016 • 3 min read

Defined Benefit

Do longevity swaps create a potential barrier to buy-in or buyouts?

If structured correctly longevity swaps should not form a barrier to schemes going on to do buy-ins or buyouts according to Murray Blake.

clock 21 January 2016 • 4 min read

Admin / Technology

Is your data ready for re-enrolment?

Robert Barksfield says schemes need to make sure their systems are ready to deal with re-enrolment

clock 20 January 2016 • 4 min read

Investment

Schemes need greater awareness of risk

Neil Copeland looks at the growing need for trustees to be aware of the risks in their investment strategies.

clock 19 January 2016 • 4 min read

Investment

The argument for FX

Charlotte Moore considers why pension schemes need to pay more attention to foreign exchange markets

clock 19 January 2016 • 8 min read

Law and Regulation

Schemes need more certainty on pension reform

Trying to anticipate future pension reform is causing problems for schemes finds Helen Morrissey.

clock 19 January 2016 • 2 min read

Defined Contribution

Savers need to access pension flexibilities

Graham Vidler looks at the challenges of ensuring pension freedoms work well for savers.

clock 15 January 2016 • 3 min read

Law and Regulation

Pensions taxation: It's the way you tell'em

Kevin Wesbroom looks at what we might expect from the pension tax relief consultation.

clock 14 January 2016 • 3 min read

Investment

Pensions Management and the 'Cult of Equity'

Yally Avrahampour looks at the important issues of agency in pension scheme management

clock 14 January 2016 • 3 min read

Investment

Index-linked gilts - time for a rethink?

Colin Dryburgh puts forward the case for US treasury inflation protected securities (TIPS).

clock 13 January 2016 •
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